Basically, I’m taking ghetto to the next level by using my Dell Optiplex 745 workstation as an ESXi 4.0 server, and using a Western Digital MyBook World Edition as an NFS server which will store the VM images. The MyBook is actually very cool; it’s a quiet, visually appealing mirrored 1TB NAS. After manually enabling the NFS server, I was able to mount the shares in VMware but was unable to write to it. Attempting to create a VM would error out with the following in the messages log:

After searching the ‘nets for about an hour, I found a post on MyBook World that addressed my issue. By default the MyBook mounts NFS shares as read-only. To change that, I modified the /etc/exports file, changing all instances of “ro” to “rw.”

Chrissy is a PowerShell MVP who has worked in IT for nearly 20 years, and currently serves as a Sr. Database Engineer in Belgium. Always an avid scripter, she attended the Monad session at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles back in 2005 and has worked and played with PowerShell ever since. Chrissy is currently pursuing an MS in Systems Engineering at Regis University and helps maintain
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